Song for My Father

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Song for My Father is written by Stephanie Stokes Oliver and published by Simon and Schuster. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 074347404X (ISBN 10) and 9780743474047 (ISBN 13).

Song for My Father is a daughter's memoir of her father, Charles M. Stokes, a prominent African-American member of the National Republican Party. Known as "Stokey," he was born just forty years after the abolition of slavery. But by the time he became a pioneer in the fields of law, legislation, and politics-during the turbulent and transformative 1960s and 70s-contemporary associations of the GOP with the "party of Lincoln" had faded. Stokes's choice to remain a Republican against the tide of black Democratic political loyalty took courage. He would live to become Seattle's first black state legislator and serve as Washington State's first African-American district court judge.